Other Names:

Cultivated Garlic

Benefits

Antibacterial

Antiparasitic

Snake-repellent

Rodent-repellent

Insect-repellent

Antihelmintic

Antioxidant

Anticoccidial

Insect-repellent

Antimicrobial

Garlic

Allium sativum

Garlic (Allium sativum) is well known for its use as a spice and herbal medicine in humans for thousands of years. It contains many useful bioactive compounds such as alliin, diallylsulphides and allicin. Garlic has been shown to have anti-thrombotic activity, lower blood lipids, blood tension, antibacterial properties, potent inhibitor of food pathogens, and has cardio-protective effects.

Significant decrease in total cholesterol, total triglyceride and adipose tissue

S Dehkordi et al., 2009

Volatile Oil

Broilers

0.10%

42 days

Significantly decreased serum levels of cholesterol, LDL, and triglyceride, as well as increase levels of HDL.

S Rahimi et al., 2011

Powder

Broilers

1 g/kg

49 days

Lowered cholesterol levels

N Hosseini et al., 2011

Snake-repellent
Garlic is said to contain chemicals which act as a natural snake repellent. Mix together half a dozen of crushed garlic cloves in with water to create a spray, to spray around the exterior of the area in which you want to repel snakes.

Prevention of Necrotic enteritis (NE)
Adding 1.0 to 1.5 g/kg of garlic powder to your flock's diet may help in the prevention of Necrotic enteritis.

Control of Northern fowl mites
Spraying hens with a mixture of 10% garlic juice in water is a natural, effective way to decrease the presence of northern fowl mites in laying hens.

Control of Red Poultry Mites
Garlic extract is effective as a repellent against red mites, demonstrating a 96% success after two successive sprays.

Antihelmintic
Adding 2.5 mg/bird of garlic to the diet of chickens infected with Ascaridia galli (roundworms) can help reduce internal parasitic worm load.